topic Re: MAIL to internet address from DCL script in Operating System - OpenVMS

MAIL to internet address from DCL script

Paul Murray_4 — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 09:04:32 GMT

Hello Gurus,

I'm having a little trouble using MAIL within a DCL script.

Basically, I'm running AUTOGEN FEEDBACK and want to email the report to the sysadmins in the team. However, the email addresses are standard internet addresses rather than host specific VMS mail.

When I enter the address "admins@blah.com" from an interactive MAIL session, everything works fine. However, from within my script - nothing !!

The line in my script to send the mail is :-

$ MAIL SYS$SYSTEM:AGEN$FEEDBACK.DAT ADMINS@BLAH.COM /SUBJECT="AUTOGEN FEEDBACK"

I'm presuming that the problem revolves around the "@" sign, but I don't know how to get around it.

Any ideas ??

Regs,
Paul.

(PS - Thanks in advance !!).

Re: MAIL to internet address from DCL script

Jeroen Hartgers_3 — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 09:20:45 GMT

syntax something like this

mail smtp:"x@a.com"

Re: MAIL to internet address from DCL script

Paul Murray_4 — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 09:28:08 GMT

Hi,

Got a little further than before - actually got an error message now :-

$ MAIL SYS$SYSTEM:AGEN$FEEDBACK.DAT SMTP:"ADMINS@BLAH.COM" /SUBJECT="AUTOGEN FEEDBACK"
%TCPIP-E-SMTP_BADADDR, recipient address is illegal; unparsed string: :@
%TCPIP-E-SMTP_ABORT, SMTP session aborted

Paul.

Re: MAIL to internet address from DCL script

Jan van den Ende — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 09:36:22 GMT

Paul,

yes, it is about the @ sign, and the way around this is the VMS way around any special syntax or characters:
enclose the entire recipient specification in double quotation marks In a script you put THAT in quotation marks, and you put double those to specify them IN the string.
That results in """username@internet.address"""

hth

Proost.

Have one on me.

jpe

Re: MAIL to internet address from DCL script

Heinz W Genhart — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 09:37:07 GMT

Hi

the correct syntax is:

$ MAIL SYS$SYSTEM:AGEN$FEEDBACK.DAT "SMTP%ADMINS@BLAH.COM" /SUBJECT="AUTOGEN FEEDBACK"

Regards

Heinz

Re: MAIL to internet address from DCL script

Robert Gezelter — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 10:09:31 GMT

Paul,

I concur, from long experience, with Jan and Heinz.

The correct syntax (presuming that you are using a base SMTP transport, not a message router such as MX) is:

$ mail filename "SMTP%""username@domain"""

Please note the multiple quotes. Quotes WITHIN a quoted string must be doubled.

- Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com

Re: MAIL to internet address from DCL script

Steven Schweda — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 10:22:14 GMT

Regarding "the correct syntax":

And how many years has it been since the
"SMTP%" has actually been _required_ by MAIL
on an Internet address?

My advice: Stop reading replies after Feb 13,
2006 14:36:22 GMT, when "the correct answer"
was posted.

Of course, it's still legal to specify
"SMTP%" (or "WINS%", or whatever your mailer
goes by), but you can easily see for yourself
if it's needed or not.

Re: MAIL to internet address from DCL script

Wim Van den Wyngaert — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 10:26:06 GMT

I simply do :
$ mail/sub="x" file "us@wim.com"

from within the script, in batch or interactive, and without any problem.

Wim

Re: MAIL to internet address from DCL script

Paul Murray_4 — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 10:54:04 GMT

Guys,

Thanks for all the input - I just happened to try my script on another host, just by wrapping the email address in double-quotes, and the mail came through straight away.

Given that interactive MAIL works on the original server, by my script doesn't, is there a logical or something that might be missing on the other host ?

(Sorry to change the problem !!)

Regs,
Paul

Re: MAIL to internet address from DCL script

Wim Van den Wyngaert — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 11:05:06 GMT

May be MAIL$INTERNET_MODE.

Check http://h71000.www7.hp.com/DOC/73final/6017/6017pro_016.html

Wim

Re: MAIL to internet address from DCL script

Jan van den Ende — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 14:16:10 GMT

Wim,

I do not think that that applies here:

ADMINS@BLAH.COM

contains a full stop at the right of the @ sign, and then MAIL$INTERNET_MODE is not necessary to resolve the addressing style.

Proost.

Have one on me.

jpe

Re: MAIL to internet address from DCL script

Wim Van den Wyngaert — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 14:44:52 GMT

Jan,

If it is defined as decnet, all addresses are interpreted as decnet addresses and the @ is invalid. I think.

Paul will tell. I hope.

Wim

Re: MAIL to internet address from DCL script

Thomas Ritter — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 17:52:03 GMT

Paul, to send SMTP mail using a distribution list the syntax is like this

$ mail/subject="Stuff" file.dat @mail.dis

where mail.dis has the SMTP formats like
this
"smtp%rover@team.company.com",-
"smtp%dog@team.company.com"

Re: MAIL to internet address from DCL script

Dave Laurier — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 04:12:05 GMT

You may benefit from the sendmail.com script that can be found at http://dcl.openvms.org.

This script allows one to send MIME or SMTP messages and allows files to be attached.